Anode.



v No. 882,110. PATENTED MAR.17, 1908.

A. M, HILL.

ANODB.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, 1907.

ALBERT M. HILL, or NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T 0.

; LYN, NEW YORK.

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- porting rod or arm provided on its lower end the anode is contracted, thereby providing Haven,-State of Connecticut, haveinvented ever desired.

size and form may vary within very: wide in Fig. 4, the' said head 2 thereby partaking UNITED STATES ragnur onnion.

UPllAM ELY, OF BROOK- ANODE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 17, 1908.

Application filed April 15, 1907. Serial No. 368,189.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, ALBERT M. HILL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New Ha en, county of New'i certain new and useful lmprovements in Anodes, of which the following is a specificatioh.

This invention relates to a device for supporting a nickel or other anode in an elece object of the invention is to provide simple and effective means for connecting a suspension arm with the anode of such a character that the two parts may be easily Separated and a new anode suspended when-- The invention consists essentially in a supwith a socket which engages an interlocking head on the anode, and thus enables an effect- We connection to be made between them peculiarities in the construction and combination of parts, substantially s will be here.-

In the accompanying drawing, illustratnew and improved ano e, and the means or suspending it. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an edge view. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the anode proper.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding arts throughout the diflerent figures of the rawing.

1 designates an anode of nickel, cop er, or any other desired metal or material a apted for use in an electrolytic cell. The shape,

limits. The upper end is fashioned with a head 2, having longitudinal sides inclined from top to bottom, as shown in Fig. 1, and having also said sides inclined towards each other at one end, as indicated more clearly of the form ofa wedge as well as a dove-tail. The vertically inclined sides 3 are preferably the widest apart at the top, so that the lower portion of the head 2 nearest to the body of thedove-tailshape. Also, the up er fiat face4 of the anode shows how the si es 3 are longitudinally inclined in addition to being -to separate them for the 'anode'in the desired manner.

. the claims as set vertically inclined, so that said face 4 is wider at one end than at the other. This enables a socket to be used with this doubly inclined head, which will grasp it so as to hold it, and, at the same time, is capable of being locked thereto by a wedging action to a sutlicient extent so as to prevent a detachment of the two parts one from the other, except at such times as it may be necessary ducing a new anode. 5 denotes a rod or arm'havmg on the upper end a hook 6,-sa1d rod or arm being adapted to occupy a vertical position, with the hook engaging some suspension wire or device that will properly hold it. The lower end of the rod 5 is provided with a socket 7 whose side flanges 7, as indicated in Fig. 2, are interiorly inclined vertically, and also longitudinally, so as to correspond with the double inclination of the. head 2. The vertical bevels of the side flanges 7 enable said flanges to grip under the inclined sides 3 of purpose of introthe head 2, and 'thus hold the anode in a suspended position, and the longitudinal inclination of theses ides 7 enables the socket 7 to be slid over the head 2 in such' a manner that the wedge shape of head 2 will bind sufficiently within the socket 7 and hold the Of course, it is within the limits of my invention to omit the longitudinal wedge shape of the head 2 and of the socket 7, and provide merely the correspondingly inclined interlocking arts which, under many circumstances, mig t be suflicient to form a connection proper to adequately support the anode .by means of the'arm; but lt'is found in practice that In orderto secure the best results it ispreferable to ave the longitudinal inclination so as 'tosecure'some wedging bind, and thus hold theitwo parts together in such a manner that they cannot be easily dislodged from each other, except as circumstances may require.

. Vanouschanges in the details in the form and arrangement of the invention may be made without de arting from the scope of fbrth. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: v

' The combina'tion with an-anode having at one end a head formed with a flat transverse horizontal face which is at right angles to the. longitudinal axisof the anode and is formed with side faces below said flat face, which which rests on the side faces are inwardly inclined at an angle to the said flat face vertically and are like- Wise longitudinally inclined so that the head partakes of the form of a double wedge shape, of a supporting hook having a socket at its lower end adapted to engage said be effected when the two parts are connected wedge pose, substantially as and for the purpose set shape head, said socket containing a flat side forth.

flat face of the head and also is formed with lateral flanges interiorly inclined in two directions so as to correspond to and engage with the double inclination of i the sides of the head, all arranged so that an interlocking of the socket with the head may i -Signed at New Haven this 4th day of April, 1907.

, ALBERT M. HILL.

W'itnesses EDWIN C. Dow, NOBLE S. BLATGHLEY. 

